Just Juice By: Karen Hesse

Just Juice is a novel that shows hard times in a family. Juice and her father can't read and are ashamed at that, so they don't tell anyone. Soon you find out that it causes much trouble for them and their family. They begin to practice and try to learn how to read. When the problems arrive, the family works together to try to solve the problems. It's hard for children to understand and I think that this book really talks to children about not giving up. It is a great book about dedication and staying together and working together as a family. It shows hard times and what the children may feel and I think it does a great job at showing how a family must stick together and work it out. A great book for children to read.

Are You Going to Be Good? By: Cari Best

This book is all aboiut manners and how children should act when going out with there parents. It gives children a different look at a different kind of party that they may go to. Sometimes it may be hard for a child to understand why they have to behave or can't do certain things, and this book does a great job in trying to capture what it's like. In the book, they try to correct the young boy when he misbehaves but in the end when he acts differently by dancing, everyone joins in. I think that it's hard sometimes to know exactly how to act, when you aren't sure of the rules.

Dear Tooth Fairy By:Pamela Duncan Edwards

Dear Tooth Fairy was a creative book in that it was mostly written in letters. The children would write letters to the tooth fairy and the Tooth Fairy would write back. I thought this book was good because when the letters were written, it sounded exactly how a child of that age would write. It was asking questions and wondering when the Tooth Fairy would come. I thought the illustrations were great and that the book flowed well. Overall I thought this book was very good and very age appropriate.

I Lost My Dad By: Taro Gomi

I Lost My Dad was a creative book cutting out parts of the pictures to show different clothes that the father was wearing. I thought that it was a good book and captured the mind of a child who looses sight of the parents or someone they know, and don't know where to find them. It's a scarey thought and I thought that this book did a nice job of looking into a child's mind. It was a very simple and easy read and it flowed very well.

Why Heaven is Far Away By: Julius Lester and Joe Cepeda

Why Heaven is so Far Away took me for a loop. This book to me was a little out there. I felt that with talking about serious matters, such as God, the book should be more of a serious tone. It was creative in what they did but it just seemed like a very crazy idea. And I know I may be being picky but some things just seemed off. The author put that the snakes walked back down the ladder. Well in my opinion, you should at least use the correct terms because a child will no doubt pick up on it that, that term is incorrect. To me this wasn't a very well thoughtout book.

Wild Child By: Lynn Plarde

Wild Child is definately full of color and sometimes it can be overwhelming, in my eyes. The pictures seem to be interesting for a child of appropriate age. I also felt that the rhyming didn't quite match throughout the story. It seemed as though it skipped around from rhyming in the beginning of the paragraph, to the middle and then on to the end of it. It just didn't run as smoothly as I would've liked. It was creative, but not as smooth as it could've been.